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What all Black people should learn about Buddhism
This lecture “What all Black people should know about Buddhism” is the result of the practice, prayers and exhaustive study and research of Anthony “Amp” Elmore who begin practicing Buddhism while in high school in Memphis, Tennessee in 1970. Elmore was 15 years old when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in his hometown of Memphis, TN in 1968. Elmore in posting this video takes up the banner of Dr. King noting that this video is part of Black struggle for equality and humanity.
While the Buddhism faith may seen unrelated to the Black struggle for freedom, justice and equality Elmore in the video explains how the true Black history of Buddhism is related to the Black struggle. Elmore explains that racism began in India 1900 hundred years ago via the cast system in India. Concurrent with the cast system was a new form of Buddhism called “Mahayana Buddhism.” Elmore explains that it was via Mahayana Buddhism created in the 2nd century A.D. by the White Kushan King Kanishka whereas Buddhism became separated by “Race, Culture and Language.” Elmore in this lecture explains that Buddhism that is practiced today is not true Buddhism and the Buddhism of today represents a history of colonization, Black exclusion, racism, cultural imperialism and delusion. Elmore provides archaeological, anthropological, literary science, genetic science and linguistic science to back us his argument that explains that the Buddhism of today is only the “cultural appropriation” of how Whites and Asians are deceiving humanity regarding the truth of Buddhism.
Original statues of Buddha show him to be of Negroid stock with the wide nose, thick lips and nappy hair. These are typical features of Black people
